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Here we use this tool to analyze atmospheric data: we consider daily-averaged Surface Air Temperature (SAT) time series recorded over a regular grid of locations covering the Earth\u2019s surface. From each SAT time series, we calculate the instantaneous frequency time series by considering the Hilbert analytic signal. The properties of the obtained frequency data set are investigated by plotting the map of the average frequency and the map of the standard deviation of the frequency fluctuations. The average frequency map reveals well-defined large-scale structures: in the extra-tropics, the average frequency in general corresponds to the expected one-year period of solar forcing, while in the tropics, a different behaviour is found, with particular regions having a faster average frequency. In the standard deviation map, large-scale structures are also found, which tend to be located over regions of strong annual precipitation. Our results demonstrate that Hilbert analysis of SAT time-series uncovers meaningful information, and is therefore a promising tool for the study of other climatological variables.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e18110408","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,11,16]],"date-time":"2016-11-16T16:23:04Z","timestamp":1479313384000},"page":"408","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Global Atmospheric Dynamics Investigated by Using Hilbert Frequency Analysis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Dario","family":"Zappal\u00e0","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Departament de F\u00edsica, Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya, Edifici Gaia, Terrassa, Barcelona 08222, Spain"}]},{"given":"Marcelo","family":"Barreiro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de F\u00edsica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la Rep\u00fablica, Igu\u00e1 4225, Montevideo 11400, Uruguay"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0768-2019","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Cristina","family":"Masoller","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departament de F\u00edsica, Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya, Edifici Gaia, Terrassa, Barcelona 08222, Spain"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,11,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"903","DOI":"10.1098\/rspa.1998.0193","article-title":"The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis","volume":"454","author":"Huang","year":"1998","journal-title":"Proc. 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